Centro Cinema Cesena - Theme and homage exhibitions

MELODRAMATIC REALISM - Luchino Visconti’s early movies

Images from the sets of three of Visconti’s masterpieces: Ossessione/Obsession, La Terra Trema/The Earth Trembles and Bellissima.
The first steps of Luchino Visconti and the first steps of Italian neorealism.

“Eclipse” by Antonioni in the photographs by Vittorugo Contino

Important photographer of multiple activities, Vittorugo Contino worked on set from the late ‘50s to the mid ‘60s (with Rossellini, Rosi, Antonioni...).
Thanks to his photojournalist view, his photos testify not only what was happening in front of the camera, but also what happened before and after the filming.

Contino donated the Centro Cinema Città di Cesena all the negatives regarding his work in cinema.

Pier Paolo Pasolini on the film set

The sets of three important films at the beginning of Pasolini’s career: Mamma Roma, La ricotta, and Uccellacci e uccellini /The Hawks and the Sparrows.
Pasolini who, from young intellectual (on the first sets, he is almost always in a suit) gradually takes possession of the “mechanism” cinema in his own way.

Stefania Sandrelli, icône du cinéma italien

The most important roles, the collaboration with prominent directors, the roles as leading character in lesser works but not less interesting for the work of an actress: a long and celebrated career lived without interruption.

Anouk, Alain, Jean-Louis and the others...

The fascinating images of French actresses and actors who have regularly attended Italian film sets from the ’50s till today.

Laughter of cinema

Actors, actresses and directors caught in moments of hilarity, on stage and off stage, between temporary conviviality and long lasting complicity.

Sixty years of cinema in the images by some of the most celebrated past and present still photographers.